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4 with much exhortation praying our favor and the fellowship of the ministry which is to the saints:
5 and not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God:
6 that we should exhort Titus, that as he formerly began it, he may indeed also complete this grace unto you.
7 But as in every thing you abound, in faith, and in word, and knowledge, and in all zeal, and in divine love from you in us, that you may also abound in this philanthropy.
8 I speak not according to commandment, but through the zeal of others also proving the sincerity of your divine love.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.
10 And herein I give my judgement: for this is profitable to you, who not only began to do, but to be anxious, a year ago:
11 but now indeed complete the work; in order that as there was a promptitude of willing, there shall also be a completion out of your ability.
12 For if there is first a willing mind, it is acceptable according to what one may have, and not according to what he has not.
13 For it is not that there may be relief to others, affliction to you, but that it may be according to equality: at this time your abundance may correspond to their deficiency,
14 that their abundance may correspond with your deficiency, in order that there may be equality:
15 as has been written, He that had much did not super-abound; and he that had little did not lack.